Looking at Art in New Ways – How AI Is Critiquing, and Creating Art

The public queues for hours at the Musée du Louvre in Paris to catch a glimpse of this much studied portrait. But, according to AI, it's not much to look at really. At least that is the outcome from a project being undertaken at the Art and Artificial Intelligence Lab at Rutgers University. The team at Rutgers has been using AI to analyze and create art for the past five years, studying around 80,000 different paintings by over 1,100 artists. One of the first outcomes from the research was the replication of known painting styles.